Rainbow Easter Eggs

In the middle of our crazy bedroom switcharoo project, we stopped for a quick, green little snack in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.

The inspiration came from the plastic mesh bag that grapefruit and onions are sold in. After the kids inhaled four giant grapefruit, I was wondering if I could possibly make something out this sack before I tossed it. The result was a quick little basket perfect for taming that treasure at the end of the rainbow (or at least a rainbow of fruit flavors.)

Want to make one?

For this project you’ll need:

As always though … rock what ya got.

Trace and cut out the outline of a small cup or jar on a scrap piece of paper …

… then place paper against the bottom of the glass, wrap the mesh tightly around the sides and trim away the extra mesh. You should have just enough length at the bottom to fold into the middle to make the bottom of the basket.

Carefully add a ring of hot glue to the paper base and carefully fold the mesh into towards the center. Again … carefully.

Trim the top edge to make it flat and run a small bead of glue down the back seam of the mesh to close the side seems. When glue has set, carefully remove basket from the mold.

My kids liked the look of a handle Easter basket style so I added a narrow strip of mesh with a dot of glue on each side to the smaller one. A quick coat of spray paint …

Made Jell-o eggs back in the mid 90's. Took them to Easter Dinner. My Father about went thru the roof when the nieces and nephews came running in and took them off the platter with their fingers. Said that's how you are suppose to eat themm. It took him a few mins. before he tried one.

Wow, these are so cool! I actually have those same molds (hand me downs from my mom) but have never used them! In fact, I'm glad I came across your post b/c I didn't know how to use them! I didn't realize you poured the jello in the hole! Haha! I think I'll have to pull these out this weekend and make some for Easter. Thanks!Jen

question, do you make the layers and then let them set for 4 hours before adding another layer? or just do 'em all at one time? (Maybe this is a silly question, but I DO like to make sure I'm doing things right.)

As of Jan. 14th 2012 – The Kraft store no longer sells the Jell-o molds and have made buying any molds dang near impossible. The few molds they do still carry are now buried on an obscure website: https://apfco.com/secure/w1381/products.cfm?category=001 . Hopefully they'll bring these back in time for Easter. If they do, I'll post a new link. If not, I see these molds pop up periodically on eBay — good luck!

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Not at all but they are a little bit slippery, which I just use a paper towel to wipe off. I also heard, but haven't tried, that you can not use the cooking spray, and just run warm water over the mould and the eggs just pop out. Hope this helps!

Have made Jello eggs for years and they're always a hit for all ages. I take them to potlucks cut in half and put in a cupcake liner. Makes for an easy grab. I am going to add Rainbow Eggs to my collections!!

I haven't made these yet, but according to the Kraft (Jello) site, one 6 oz box of Jello fills one mold (6 eggs). So I figure if you make 6 3-oz boxes (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) that would fill 3 molds (18 eggs). I have two molds and I'm just planning on making 5 boxes (leaving out either yellow or orange) and having some left over for my "sample" bowl. Hope this helps.

Whoops, didn't pay attention to the fact that the Kraft recipe I was looking at was for Jello Jiggler eggs, which are made with a lot less water than regular jello. The mold holds about 1.5 cups jello. For the rainbow jello recipe referenced, you're making 10 cups of jello (just under 1.5 cups liquid per 3 oz box of jello). So that would fill close to 7 6-egg jello molds! Yikes! I ended up buying 5 6 oz boxes of jello (could only get 5 colors in the large size) so will be trying this with 2 egg molds plus a bundt.

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Those are super! I'm not sure where to get those moulds in the UK, but I am sure Hobbycraft will have something similar. If not I'll just use my heart/teddy bear moulds, after all stripy jelly (jello) works in any cute shape!

I thought you should know, I found your pictures and recipe on a Turkish website. The only credit she gives you is at the bottom of the post in small letters is the word "photo" with no mention of your website. She did the same to me. I told her that was NOT good enough. Here is the link. http://www.sihirliyemektarifleri.com/gokkusagi-yumurta-joleler/—Sheryl @ Lady Behind The Curtain—

Thanks for the directions on how to safely make these. I know people who tried to say to make them in eggs that you fill for hunting on Easter…which are not food safe. They were looking at your idea which is so cute and trying to do it with eggs that were never meant for this type of mold. I will be making them for my grandchildren for Easter. I think I will try them without the spray. Has anyone else done that? I was concerned that they would be greasy and I have such picky eaters.

I just made these this morning, however I don't have molds so what I did was I got real eggs carefully put a small hole at both ends and blew the eggs out, then with a glue gun I sealed one hole and using a serenge filled them with jello. They are setting as I type. Just peel the shell from the jello…. Used the egg I blew out for breakfast this morning.

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